California Streets and Highways Code ARTICLE 2 - Permit Provisions

• Section 670.
  (a) The department may issue written permits, as provided in this chapter, authorizing the permittee to do any of the following acts:(1) Make an opening or excavation...
• Section 670.1.
  (a) The department may issue a permit to the owner or developer of property adjacent to or near a state highway to construct, alter, repair, or...
• Section 670.5.
  (a) The Flag of the United States of America and the Flag of the State of California may be displayed on a sidewalk located in or...
• Section 671.
  Any act done under the authority of a written permit, issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be done in accordance with the...
• Section 671.1.
  The department may establish a fee schedule and charge a fee for the issuance of permits pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, except that...
• Section 671.5.
  (a) The department shall either approve or deny an application from an applicant for an encroachment permit within 60 days of receiving a completed application, as...
• Section 672.
  Any permit issued under the provisions of this chapter may provide that the permittee will pay the entire expense of replacing the highway in as...
• Section 673.
  (a) Any permit issued to a permittee of the class specified in Section 678 shall contain a provision that in the event the future improvement of...
• Section 674.
  The department may, but is not required to, supervise any work done under any permit, issued under the provisions of this chapter in which event...
• Section 675.
  (a) Permittees may excavate openings in state highways to make repairs in cases of emergency requiring immediate action. In such cases, the appropriate representative of the...
• Section 676.
  The department may delegate to any city any of the department’s powers, duties, and authority, other than those of approval, under this chapter as to...
• Section 677.
  Before granting a permit under any provision of this chapter, the department may require the applicant to file with the department a satisfactory bond payable...
• Section 678.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, such a bond shall not be required of any county, city, public corporation or political subdivision which is...
• Section 679.
  Any city, municipal utility district, municipal water district or metropolitan water district is entitled to a blanket permit, renewable annually, for the installation of its...
• Section 680.
  Whenever a franchise is granted by any county or city in any public highway which has been or is subsequently constituted a state highway, the...
• Section 680.5.
  The department and any utility as defined in Section 700 may enter into a contract for or apportioning the obligations and costs to be borne...
• Section 681.
  Whenever a franchise shall have been granted by any county or city in any public highway heretofore or hereafter constituted a State highway, all of...
• Section 682.
  Every city and county shall have power to grant franchises authorizing the exercise of any privilege in, along, across, under, through, over, and upon any...
• Section 682.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 731, the department may issue permits to counties and cities for the use of highways within their boundaries and to community-based nonprofit corporations...
• Section 683.
  No franchise of any kind shall be granted in respect to any State highway or portion thereof which has been established as a freeway pursuant...
• Section 684.
  No franchise shall be granted for the installation of street or other railroad tracks or the operation of street railroads or other railroads on any...
• Section 685.
  In case a franchise is granted for the exercise of a privilege in a city street or county highway, approval of the department shall not...
• Section 686.
  The department shall approve any franchise submitted for approval pursuant to Section 683 or 684 unless the department finds on the facts of the particular...
• Section 687.
  Franchises may be granted under this article separately as to any state highway, or portion thereof, or in respect to both state highways, or portions...
• Section 688.
  In cases in which the approval of the department is not required, the city or county shall give notice to the department of any application...
• Section 689.
  No privilege shall be exercised in any state highway pursuant to any franchise granted under this article until a copy of such franchise, certified by...
• Section 690.
  The department shall have the power to prescribe the location, within the limits of the State highway, of any physical property to be constructed or...
• Section 691.
  In the exercise within the limits of any State highway of any privilege granted by franchise, the holder thereof shall at all times be subject...
• Section 692.
  Independently of or jointly with the grantor city or county, the department may enforce any obligation imposed by any franchise granted pursuant to Section 682...
• Section 693.
  All sums payable by the grantee under any such franchise shall be paid to the grantor city or county.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 708.)
• Section 694.
  All franchises heretofore granted by any city for the exercise of any privilege in any State highway, are hereby fully validated, legalized and made effective,...
• Section 695.
  Failure of the department to act upon any application for approval under Sections 683 or 684 within 90 days after the filing of such application...

Last modified: October 22, 2018